Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 23:34, Tim Bird a écrit :
> Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Feel free to rewrite quilt entirely in C then, I'm sure it would be
> > much, much faster  :) 
> 
> I realize this was said in jest, but I'll respond anyway.

Actually, I was only half joking. I still stand on my point that
writing a project with 94% of scripts and 6% of C is a technical
non-sense. If backup-files had been a shell script to start with,
none of you would ask for it to be rewritten in C.

> I don't know if that's true.  The bulk of the actual text processing
> for a quilt system is handled by 'patch'.  That's already in C.

This may be true of "quilt push", but not quite so for other
commands.

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3


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